Barry Dima
11-10-2015, 2:15 PM
Hey all,
Thanks for looking. Here's a gift I just made for two friends who just got married and love tabletop games. I used all hand tools for everything except the miters, which I don't have the guts to do by hand yet. The box is oak with a zebrawood pull and divider and plywood bottom. (I'm pretty sure I'm done working with plywood; I prefer my ryoba's teeth to saving some bucks.)
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The bottom is rabbeted in. The lid slides into a dado under which the divider's dadoed. I learned a lot during the project, including how to incorporate mistakes into impromptu design (:cool:) and that I should have bought a Stanley 78 earlier. Hoo boy. I also learned I need to learn how to sharpen a router plane iron better. Oh, and shims out of cigar boxes make splines that fit perfectly into a ryoba's saw kerf.
I pulled the design--but not proportions--from an etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/WyrmwoodGaming) with beautiful work. For building tips, I turned to projects and blogs from Derek Cohen (http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/BuildingaMitredPencilBoxwithaShootingBoard.html) and mafe at Lumberjocks (http://lumberjocks.com/mafe/blog/21973). Mine's not as good as theirs.
Any feedback is always welcome, but I already know I need a donkey's ear.
Thanks for looking. Here's a gift I just made for two friends who just got married and love tabletop games. I used all hand tools for everything except the miters, which I don't have the guts to do by hand yet. The box is oak with a zebrawood pull and divider and plywood bottom. (I'm pretty sure I'm done working with plywood; I prefer my ryoba's teeth to saving some bucks.)
325032325033325034
The bottom is rabbeted in. The lid slides into a dado under which the divider's dadoed. I learned a lot during the project, including how to incorporate mistakes into impromptu design (:cool:) and that I should have bought a Stanley 78 earlier. Hoo boy. I also learned I need to learn how to sharpen a router plane iron better. Oh, and shims out of cigar boxes make splines that fit perfectly into a ryoba's saw kerf.
I pulled the design--but not proportions--from an etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/WyrmwoodGaming) with beautiful work. For building tips, I turned to projects and blogs from Derek Cohen (http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/BuildingaMitredPencilBoxwithaShootingBoard.html) and mafe at Lumberjocks (http://lumberjocks.com/mafe/blog/21973). Mine's not as good as theirs.
Any feedback is always welcome, but I already know I need a donkey's ear.